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It's really sad to see such misanthropic opinions here.
by k__ 6y ago
It's really sad to see such misanthropic opinions here.
- mikkergp 6y agoSo I’ve seen this negativity towards reducing global population but I don’t entirely understand it. Based on the fact that richer countries tend to have lower rates of reproduction than poorer countries. So why not reduce global inequality and then let people have as many kids as they want (which tends not to be enough to increase the global population). It seems like a win win.
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- ma2rten 6y agoI am also sad to see sentient beings being referred to as things.
- altcognito 6y agoWanting to insure that we have an appropriate amount of resources to support humans isn’t misanthropic, it is good planning. You can’t have endless population growth forever, it literally violates the laws of physics at some point.
- k__ 6y agoI don't know if prohibiting people from having kids so you can keep eating burgers is the optimal solution.
- fallingknife 6y agoWell eventually the population gets to 4x what it is today, and then you are going to be using all of the available land to grow plant based food for everyone. So now your choice is limit reproduction or starve, so obviously you're going to choose to limit reproduction. It's inevitable, so might as well do it at a point where everyone doesn't have to eat nothing but rice and beans.
- tyingq 6y agoI didn't read anything anti-humankind there. Arguably, it's an important point because if we do nothing, famine might kick in to correct for it. Better availability of contraception, for example, isn't a rash measure.
- fallingknife 6y agoYeah let's continue to cram more and more people onto Earth to the point that we have to continuously lower our standard of living just to fit them all. But I'm the one who's misanthropic?